The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 157
Sultān-ul-Qalam-King of the Pen 157 other time I needed a word that would convey the sense of 'becoming speechless due to grief or anger', but I did not know it. All at once I received the revelation: (wujūm). The same thing happens with regard to whole sentences in Arabic. During the process of writing Arabic, hundreds of complete sentences descend upon my heart, either in the form of verbal revelation or in the form of a writing on a paper which is shown to me by an angel. Some of these sentences are verses of the Holy Quran, or similar to them with minor modification. Sometimes I only find out later that a certain Arabic sentence that had been revealed to me by God was in fact present in a certain book. God, being the Lord of everything, has the authority to reveal to my heart a fine sentence from some book, or an exquisite verse from some book of poetry. So much for Arabic, but even more surprising is the fact that I receive revelations in languages like. English, Sanskrit or Hebrew, with which I have no familiarity whatsoever. Some specimens of these were included in Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyya. God, in. Whose hand is my life, is my witness that this is how. He has been dealing with me. This is one of the signs pertaining to matters of the unseen that continue to be revealed to me in various forms. My God cares not if any phrase that is revealed to me happens to figure in some Arabic, Sanskrit or English book, because for me it is a matter of the unseen. For instance, God Almighty has related many episodes from the Torah in the Holy Quran, and has included them in the category of the unseen, because they were the unseen for